Security forces killed 10 Taliban fighters in South Waziristan and two Lashkar-e-Islam fighters in Khyber, and detained seven Maldivians. Two Frontier Corps troops were killed in Khyber and three Pakistani civilians and a policeman were wounded in a suicide attack in Malakand. A provincial minister said that 5,000 Uzbeks are in Waziristan and that the […]
Al-Qaeda allies build huge Pakistan base
Pakistan – Waziristan power politics
US funds were diverted to strengthen defence against India: Musharraf
Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has admitted to what many of us have known for some time: Pakistan has diverted US aid – money that was intended to be used to fight al Qaeda and the Taliban – to programs designed to strengthen the military against India. From The Times of India: Musharraf admitted that […]
Pakistan police chief in call for help
Pak has a blacklist of critical US scribes, NGOs
Mullah Qari Fazlullah: captured? The Telegraph is reporting that Swat Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah has been captured and the surrender of his forces has been announced: The Taliban has announced its surrender in Swat Valley, one of its major strongholds until a Pakistan Army offensive regained control earlier this summer. Its announcement, made on one […]
Pakistan – US presses for ‘hard steps™ to reform power sector
Security forces killed 22 Lashkar-e-Islam fighters in Khyber and killed five Taliban fighters in Swat. Two policemen were wounded in a suicide attack in Hangu. More than 350 tribal police in Khyber were fired for failing to show up for duty after threats from extremists.
Pakistan: Taliban leader builds new links with Al-Qaeda
Shifts in opinion & threat perception
Security threats from Pak not lessened: India
Five senior Swat Taliban leaders including Muslim Khan were detained during negotiations with the military. The military’s top spokesman said the time for negotiations with the Taliban is over. Five hundred tribal policemen in Khyber deserted due to Taliban threats. A Haqqani Network commander was killed in the Sept. 8 airstrike in North Waziristan.
A flag of the Khyber-based Lashkar-e-Islam painted on a wall in Bara. While the Pakistani military operation in Swat is showing signs of progress, the recently launched Khyber operation against the Lashkar-e-Islam is showing far less promise. Despite the military’s claims of routing the Lashkar-e-Islam (nearly 200 fighters have been reported killed during 10 days […]
Haji Muslim Khan, Mahmood Khan, and Mufti Bashir Ahmad were among five detained in an operation in Swat. Haji Muslim Khan is one of the top four most-wanted Taliban leaders in Swat.
Maulvi Ismail Khan was among 12 killed in an attack on a compound in the Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan.
President Zardari rejected the US “AfPak” strategy. Fifteen Taliban fighters and six Uzbek fighters were killed in Swat, and 33 Taliban fighters were detained in Mohmand and 12 more in Dir. Two Pakistanis were killed in a rocket attack on the Jandola Scouts Fort in South Waziristan.
US eyes military equipment transfer to Pakistan from Iraq
Zardari rejects Obama™s AfPak strategy
Dawn published an encouraging article noting that tribal lashkars, or local militias, are taking a stand in Swat, a region once under the full control of the Taliban until the military launched an operation last spring: When a posse of Taliban fighters entered a mosque in this village during evening prayers last week to demand […]
Fearing Taliban, Pak Hindus take Thar Express to India
Stolen Nato devices recovered from Quetta warehouse
Pakistan – How the tide is turning in Swat
Pakistani attack threatens NATO route
The military killed seven Taliban fighters and detained 28 more in Swat and 30 in Khyber. The bodies of three Taliban fighters were discovered in Arakzai. The Chaman border crossing remains closed to NATO traffic.
US overlooked Pak nuke program, bomb was ready in 1983: Khan
A dispute between truckers and Pakistani border guards has caused the southern crossing to be closed for the second time in two weeks. The Taliban destroyed eight NATO fuel tankers outside Quetta.
Nine Taliban fighters and three civilians were reported killed in a US airstrike against the Haqqanis in North Waziristan. The military killed 24 Lashkar-e-Islam fighters in Khyber and detained 31 Taliban fighters and two commanders in Swat. A senior Taliban deputy was killed in Bajaur. The Taliban destroyed eight NATO tankers in Quetta and kidnapped […]
Al Jazeera interview: Robert Gates